German blogger Kitesurfer added a few innovative touches when building a charging station into an Ikea Expedit Bookcase. The charging station involves creating a chipboard panel to cover a power strip leaving the cables feeding through the panel to the cubby. Kitesurfer takes this basic design a step further by adding digital picture frame displaying various battery charge images.

Another interesting feature is that the power strip plugs into an outlet switch so it can be turned off when not in use to eliminate vampire power loads.

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This hack will work in just about any type of bookcase or shelving, but the Ikea Expedit is a popular fixture for Ikea hacking that we've coveredseveraltimes, so if you choose that you may be able to combine a charging station with another hack.